The latest few Github release tarballs seem to be empty. This is especially an issue for packagers, as Ardour does not seem to provide a versioned tarball on the official website. A fix to this issue would be appreciated at your earliest convenience.

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This in intentional. Github provided zips and tar bundles never worked.

The version of Ardour is maintained using git-tags.
Compiling Ardour depends on either
1) `git describe`
or a file generated by `./waf dist` which uses `git describe` and is added to the zip:
2) libs/ardour/revision.cc
Github does not allow to use a hook or git-attribute to inject a version file while zipping.

Also the git-tag is the very first step in the release procedure. If some issues or regressions are found during the release process, the tag is skipped (e.g. there was no Ardour 5.7 release; 5.7-2 became 5.8). The last step in a release process is the upstream source tar which constitutes a release.